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MARUM-SEAL in Switzerland

Scientists at the ETH Zurich now deployed the underwater vehicle MARUM-SEAL in the Swiss Lake Neuchatel. They conducted five dives in 115 metres water depth and explored craters at the seabed which are up to160 metres wide and 15 metres deep. more...

OPEN CAMPUS

On June 21th, from 3 pm an open house presentation themed "OPEN CAMPUS - Welten öffnen - Wissen teilen" takes place at the campus of the University of Bremen. MARUM will open its doors and contribute to the lecture and exhibition program. more...

RV SONNE in the Pacific

On a seven-week expedition with the German research vessel SONNE in the Western Pacific MARUM scientists study amongst others sediments to test whether and how atmospheric carbon dioxide was sequestered into the ocean during glacials for thousands of years. more...

Slow Earthquakes

In a study that was now published online in Nature Geoscience a team of MARUM researchers and American colleagues used laboratory experiments and samples from the Nankai Trough off Japan to investigate the role of slip weakening in so-called slow earthquakes. more...

Science Barge on Tour

Recently the science exhibition barge MS Wissenschaft started its 2013 tour in Berlin. Secretary of State, Dr. Georg Schütte and Prof. Gerold Wefer, Chair of Wissenschaft im Dialog, opened an exhibition on demographic change. more...

Phytoplankton Productivity

For a 4-week period, a MARUM team investigates the impact of hydrodynamics on phytoplankton activity. The team connected their instruments to the COSYNA underwater node off Helgoland. This novel observatory allows to follow field measurements online. more...

From the Gulf of Cádiz

From April 24, to May 1, PhD-students from the Bremen International Graduate School GLOMAR were onboard the research vessel POSEIDON in the Gulf of Cádiz. In a ship’s log they reported every day on their work and life onboard the research vessel. more...

Nature Geoscience

An image taken by the ROV MARUM-QUEST can be found on the cover oft he May edition of Nature Geoscience. In a letter and a News& Views contribution scientists provide information on how to reconstruct temperatures in the Earth`s mantle. more...

Antarctic Marine Ecosystem

Dr. Ursula Röhl is co-author of a Science paper which was published on April 19. It demonstrates that the development of the Antarctic ice sheet 33.5 million years ago was accompanied by considerable change in the marine ecosystem off Antarctica. more...

A New German Research Vessel

On Friday, April 12th, the keel for the new German research vessel SONNE was laid down in the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg. The new, 116 metres long deep sea research vessel will be delivered in January 2015. It will mainly be deployed in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. more...

Polarstern Expedition Finished

On April 16th the MARUM expedition onboard RV Polarstern ended in Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands. More than 30,000 visitors followed the expedition blog on National Geographic Germany (in German only). more...

Northern German Science Award

These days the Northern German Science Award 2013 was announced. This year researchers from northern Germany who are active in the fields of bio and medical sciences can apply. The award ceremony will take place in November 2013 in Bremen. more...

BIOMARIS Research Award

The Bremen based cosmetics manufacturing company BIOMARIS together with MARUM awards a research prize for the promotion of marine research in the State of Bremen. May 1st 2013 is the closing date for applications. more...

EGU Medal for John Burrows

During the EGU General Assembly which is taking place n Vienna the 2013 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal was awarded to John Burrows in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions and leadership in satellite remote sensing. more...

Carbon Dioxide and Climate

Dr. Ursula Röhl is co-author of a new Nature study in which A.N. Meckler from ETH Zurich and an international team found new evidence that ocean circulation rather than winds drove the CO2 release at the end of the last ice ages. more...

Marginal Living

On March 28 the TV station ARTE presented a documentary by Florian Guthknecht. Amongst others the author reports about expedition 82/3 of RV Meteor during which the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST explored hot vents at the Mid-Atlantic ridge. more...

IODP Newfoundland Expedition

Recently the science party of IODP expedition 342 Newfoundland took place in the Bremen core repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. More than five kilometers of core were sampled. A video shows the effort of the international team of scientists. more...

Transit RV SONNE

At the end of this week the German research vessel SONNE will finish a transit from New Zealand to Taiwan. During the cruise Prof. Michal Kucera and his team investigated the genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera. more...

Study published in PNAS

MARUM scientist Sitan Xie studied the turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and the growth of benthic archaeal populations. Together with her colleagues she published the results in the magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. more...

Planet 3.0

The natural history museum Senckenberg in Frankfurt recently opened a new special exhibition: Planet 3.0 offers a journey through the history of climate change on planet Earth. MARUM provided exhibits, videos, and audios. more...

Jung trifft steinalt

Again the MARUM-UniSchoollab participates in this year’s Kids-Uni at the University of Bremen. In the workshop on fossils "Jung trifft steinalt" on March 20-21, the kids at the age of 8-12 can work as paleontologists. more...

Deep Biosphere

MARUM scientists Elvert/Hinrichs/Mollar are co-authors of a study that was now published in Science in which Lever et al. document life deep within the oceanic crust that appears to be sustained by energy released from chemical reactions of rocks with water. more...

The New IODP

The ECORD Facility Board recently met for the first time. This new panel of the International Ocean Discovery Program schedules ECORD expeditions and defines procedures such as data collection. Dr. Ursula Röhl represents the Bremen Core Repository in this board. more...

Deep-Sea Resources

At 9 pm on Friday, March 8th, the TV station 3sat presented a programme on deep sea resources. Video material shot by the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST was presented. Prof. Antje Boetius appeared as an expert in the studio. more...

idw - General Assembly

Recently the annual general assembly 2013 of the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft idw took place in the MARUM building. The event was partly presented online (in German only). more...

Expedition Tsunami

On February 28th the TV station Arte presented a documentary about a MARUM research cruise off Japan on board RV SONNE. The film in the wake of the Tohoku earthquake can be watched on the Arte mediathek (in German only). more...

INTERCOAST Workshop

From February 18th to March 1st an INTERCOAST workshop took place in New Zealand. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of research cooperations between New Zealand and Germany the German Ambassador participated in the opening ceremony. more...

IOPD Sampling Party

Recently 40 scientists from 12 countries worked in the labs of the Bremen IODP core repository to process 5.5 kilometres of cores which were drilled last summer off Newfoundland during expedition 342 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program IODP. more...

Excellent Presentation

During the 2nd PAGES Young Scientist Meeting which took place in Goa recently MARUM scientist Ilham Bouimetarhan and colleagues received an award for their talk on „Sahel megadrought during Heinrich Stadial 1". more...

Study published in Science

Prof. Antje Boetius and her co-authors from MARUM, AWI and MPI now published their study about the rapid changes in the Arctic ecosystem from surface to depth during the ice minimum in the summer of 2012. more...

Million Dollar Funding

Dr. Cristiano Chiessi received a grant of about 1.1 million Dollars by the Brazilian funding agency FAPESP. It will allow Chiessi to investigate in close cooperation with MARUM the response of the western Atlantic Ocean to changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. more...

North Atlantic Climate

On February 10th Nature Geoscience published an online article on „Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period“. MARUM scientist Dr. Ursula Röhl is part of the international author team. more...

POSEIDON Expedition

Together with international colleagues MARUM scientists are on expedition off Mauretania on board the research vessel POSEIDON. Amongst others the team deployed a buoy which will record seasonal dust fluxes from the Sahara desert into the Atlantic Ocean. more...

Bremen Heroes

In the school competition „Bremen Heroes“ a cooperation of the MARUM UNISchoollab and a local school was awarded. The bank Sparkasse Bremen donated 2.000 Euros to implement a project on climate and climate changes. more...

Bremer Studienpreis 2012

On January 28, the Bremer Studienpreis 2012, a prize which awards outstanding theses, was given to graduates from the University of Bremen. MARUM scientist James Collins received the special price founded by the Rotary Club Bremen-Roland. more...

Lunar and Ocean Technologies

On January 28/29 aerospace specialists and deep sea researchers from 15 German institutions meet in the MARUM building to discuss various aspects of “robotic exploration under extreme conditions”, the main theme of the technology project ROBEX. more...

Audio Guide for Marine Research

The International Maritime Museum Hamburg produced a new iPod based audio guide for its exhibition on marine research. The audio guide is available in German, English and Low German. MARUM presents exhibits, videos, and images in the Maritime Museum. more...

Australia, a Journey Through Time

ARTE TV currently presents a documentary on Australia`s geological past. The series is made up of four parts and contains videos from the deep sea which were taken by the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST. more...

Tracers in the Southern Ocean

Noble gases and CFCs help to decipher the role that the Southern Ocean plays in the global climate system. Dr. Oliver Huhn and MARUM researcher Prof. Monika Rhein report details in the second editon of the Bremen University popular science magazine Impulse. more...

Workshop on Coastal Research

On February 14 and 15 the workshop “Research in Shallow Marine and Fresh Water Systems” takes place in the University of Bremen. The event is being organized by MARUM researcher Prof. Thomas Pichler. more...

Climate Snapshots

In the current edition of the popular science magazine Impulse, published by the University of Bremen, MARUM researcher Dr. Thomas Felis reports how he reconstructs ancient climate by investigating tropical and subtropical corals. more...

MARUM Research Award

Antje Lenhart, Anne Seidenglanz, and Matthias Kellermann received the „MARUM Research Award for Marine Geosciences 2012“ for their outstanding research studies. The prize is endowed with a total of 3.000 euro.

Atlas of dinoflagellate cyst

Under coordination of the MARUM an international research team established the "Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution". With these cysts, a sort of survival capsules of marine protozoa, environmental conditions of upper waters can be deduced. more...

GLOMAR Graduation Day

On 14 December 2012, thirteen graduates received their certificates at the Graduation ceremony of the Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences – GLOMAR at MARUM. more...

Deep sea diving simulation on TV

Recently a film crew of the television broadcasting station SAT.1 visited MARUM to film a telecast about the deep sea diving simulation QUESTSim. This report was broadcasted in the local television program of SAT.1 and can be seen here: more...

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation award

On December 3rd marine researcher Prof. Nicole Dubilier received the prestigious investigator award for Marine Microbiology Initiatives from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. more...

Deep Sea Exhibition

On December 2nd a deep sea exhibition ended in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim. Since the opening on March 23rd 202.078 visitors were counted. MARUM provided exhibits, images, and videos. more...

Happy Holidays!

MARUM wishes all colleagues in partner institutions and companies a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. more...

Colourful Expedition

On a recent expedition of the German research vessel SONNE lead by Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi two pinhole cameras took pictures for an art exhibition which will be opened in the Kunsthalle Emden next autumn. It is the first cooperation of the Kunsthalle and MARUM. more...

A Sea of Opportunity!

The German Marine Research Consortium organized an „Parliamentarian Evening“ in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin on November 27. During the event MARUM deep sea videos were presented. more...

Nature paper specifies climate models

MARUM scientist Prof. Heiko Pälike is co-author of a paper which was now published in Nature. In this study he and his colleagues provide a much more precise scope for the climate sensitivity. more...

Golden compass award

Ruggero Capperucci, PhD student at the international research training group INTERCOAST, was awarded the golden compass award for 'Best Student Paper and Presentation' at the Hydro12 Conference in Rotterdam. more...

New Research Training Group

Prof. Michal Kucera and colleagues successfully applied for a German-Canadian research training group called ArcTrain. Within ArcTrain PhD students will investigate processes and impacts of climate change in the North Atlantic and the Canadian Arctic. more...

MARUM Bildkalender 2013

Den MARUM Bildkalender 2013 mit faszinierenden Unterwasseraufnahmen, die mit den Tauchrobotern MARUM-CHEROKEE und MARUM-QUEST gemacht wurden, gibt's für einen Druckkostenbeitrag von 2 Euro im MARUM-Shop. more...

„Unbekannte Paradiese“

This is the title of an ARTE documentation about cold water coral reefs, that was televised on 9th November at 19:30 pm. The film crew accompanied MARUM scientist Dierk Hebbeln and his colleague André Freiwald to the corals in the Mediterranean. more...

Methane Seeps in the Deep Sea

The Journal of Geophysical Research now published an article by Dr. Miriam Römer and her MARUM co-workers in which for the first time gas bubble emissions from submarine hydrocarbon seeps at the Makran continental margin off Pakistan are quantified. more...

African Climate

From 4 - 8th November 40 participants from 13 countries meet for the workshop on African climate-vegetation interactions 2012 at MARUM. It focus on the relationships between the climate and different ecosystems since the last glacial period. more...

Strange Diet

Researchers from Bremen investigated marine methane oxidizing microorganisms and have proven that they are quite picky about their diet. They now published their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). more...

Change in Leadership

On November 1st, 2012, Prof. Gerold Wefer hands over the leadership of MARUM to the marine geologist and climate modeller Prof. Michael Schulz. With the retirement of Gerold Wefer for MARUM an era comes to an end. more...

Forschernachwuchs am MARUM

Seit dem 22.10.2012 haben sich vier Jugendliche im MARUM eingefunden, um sich zwei Wochen lang über geowissen-
schaftliche Arbeiten, die sich mit der Forschung des Klimas vergangener Zeit beschäftigen, zu informieren und selbst zu experimentieren. more...

DustTraffic

From October 3rd until 25th MARUM scientist Jan-Berend Stuut is on expedition with the research vessel METEOR to study the marine environmental effects of Saharan-dust deposition. In a trilingual log he reports on the work and life onboard the ship. more...

Project Earth: Our Future

In cooperation with the MARUM UNISchoollab pupils from Bremen attend the symposium „Project Earth: Our Future“ in Berlin on October 18th and 19th. The event covers Earth system research and contributes to the Science Year 2012. more...

Northern German Research Award

The working group on cold water coral ecosystems co-ordinated by MARUM has been nominated for the final round of the Northern German Science Award with an endowment of 50,000 Euros. The ultimate winner will be chosen out of three finalists in Hamburg on November 29th. more...

Deep Sea Exhibition Rosenheim

About 160,000 guests have already visited the deep sea exhibition in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim. MARUM contributed exhibits and video material. Because of the success the exhibition was extended until December 2nd. more...

BIOMARIS Research Award

On October 13th MARUM researcher Dr. Marcus Elvert received the BIOMARIS research award 2012 with an endowment of 5.000 Euros. The festive ceremony took place in the Bremen House of Science. more...

Biomass in the Sea Floor

The question how much microbial biomass is buried below the seabed is lively debated in the scientific community. In the current edition of Science magazine Prof. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs and his colleague Fumio Inagaki comment on a recently published biomass paper. more...

MARUM in Bild der Wissenschaft

In the current issue of the magazine Bild der Wissenschaft Thomas Willke reports in a 10 page special on the MARUM expedition exploring cold-water corals in the Gulf of Mexico. In spring he accompanied MARUM scientists onboard the MERIAN. more...

Ring of Fire

From September 9 till 26 the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST is part of the US „Ring of Fire 2012“ expedition on board the research vessel „Roger Revelle“. In an expedition log Prof. Gerold Wefer reports on the work and life on board the research vessel. more...

ERC Starting Grant 2012

MARUM scientist Dr. Jan-Berend Stuut receives research funding from the European Research Council in the amount of almost 2 million Euro. In his project "DustTraffic" he will study the marine environmental effects of Saharan-dust deposition. more...

Kick-Off Meeting COOPEUS

From September 18th to 20th 30 scientists from 8 countries come together in Bremen for the first Kick-Off Meeting within the EU project COOPEUS. The project aims at strengthening the cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research. more...

Climate Change in the Marine Realm

From September 17-24 the second part of the International European Campus of Excellence Summer School takes place at MARUM in cooperation with the AWI. The Summer School explores "Climate Change in the Marine Realm" and is financed by the Stiftung Mercator. more...

MARUM at Maritime Festival Week

Once again MARUM scientists will give lectures on maritime topics during the “Maritime Festival Week at the Weser”, which takes place September 15th to 23th. The evening lectures at Haus der Wissenschaft are for free. more...

Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean

Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi is leading a Pacific expedition of the German research vessel SONNE. The MARUM team aims at investigating possible alternative sources of CO2 in the ocean contributing to glacial/interglacial variations in atmospheric CO2. more...

SONNE Post Cruise Meeting

Recently scientists from Japan and Switzerland visited MARUM to sample cores which were achieved earlier this year during a German-Japanese cruise of RV SONNE in the Tohoku earthquake area off Japan. more...

Record Drill Depth

Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu set a world new record by drilling down deeper than 2,111 metres below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan. Prof. Kai Hinrichs an other MARUM scientists take part in this IODP expedition. more...

African Climate

Join now for the Workshop on African climate-vegetation interactions 2012! The focus will be the relationships between the climate and different ecosystems since the last glacial period. The workshop will take place at MARUM from 4 - 8th November. more...

ECORD Summer School

All in all 31 young scientists from 13 countries are visiting this year’s ECORD Summer School "Submarine Landslides, Earthquakes and Tsunamis", which takes place at the MARUM from September 3 until September 14. more...

MARUM Renewal Proposal as PDF

An abbreviated version of the renewal proposal for the Cluster of Excellence “The Ocean in the Earth System – MARUM” is now available as PDF. more...

Methane off Svalbard

MARUM scientists are currently on board the German research vessel HEINCKE. Off the west coast of Svalbard they are investigating methane reservoirs in the sea floor. A German written expedition logbook informs about the expedition. more...

Climate Change and the Abyss

Recently Prof. Heiko Pälike and an international research team showed in Nature magazine how during the past 55 million years climate change is mirrored and influenced by geochemical processes deep within the ocean. more...

Gas hydrate deposits

On August 28 and 29 about 50 participants met in the MARUM building to hold the annual general assembly of the SUGAR project in which nearly 30 partners from science and industry work on the exploration and possible extraction of gas hydrates from the sea floor. more...

150 Kilometres of Cores

The IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR) received another more than five kilometres of new cores which were drilled during IODP Expedition 342 off Newfoundland. In total the BCR now archives 151.8 kilometres of cores in the MARUM building. more...

Gold Award for Expo contribution

Recently the Expo in Korea closed its gates. The German Pavilion received the “Gold Award” for the best realization of the Expo theme “The living ocean and the coast”. Here MARUM presented deep sea videos which were shot with its diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST. more...

Brazil Joins IODP

Brazil recently joined an international marine research effort to document environmental change by monitoring and sampling the unseen world beneath the sea floor and became the newest of 26 member countries in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). more...

Summer Student Fellowship

The final presentations of the MARUM Summer Student Fellows 2012 will take place at the MARUM on August 29th, 09.00 - 11.30 a.m., in room 2060.

Open House in Berlin

On August 18th/19th the German Federal Government organized an open house event. The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) including MARUM presented ocean research activities in the Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. more...

Top Ranking for Bremen University

According to a nationwide evaluation report Bremen university scored best – especially with regard to third-party funding and relative graduation numbers in natural sciences. The German public TV covered the issue. Shooting took also place in the MARUM building. more...

Pilot training for the deep sea

MARUM scientist Dr. Volker Ratmeyer developed a computer simulation to practice and optimize missions with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST under realistic conditions. The deep sea diving simulation is housed in a container on the MARUM site. more...

Experience Technology!

On August 11th the exhibition Ideenpark initiated by the Thyssen Krupp AG company was opened in Essen. Ideenpark focusses on technology. ntil August 23rd MARUM will present a part of its deep sea research with exhibits and fascinating video material. more...

German Research Vessels

A new portal for German research vessels is available. From now on expeditions can be proposed at www.portal-forschungsschiffe.de. The website covers expeditions of the research vessels Meteor, Maria S. Merian, Sonne, and Polarstern. more...

Black Smoker Experiments

In order to better study the nature of fluids which circulate in the ocean crust the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will fund experimental research of MARUM scientist Prof. Wolfgang Bach with 1.5 million Euros. more...

Tropical Antarctica

In the current edition of Nature a team of scientists – amongst them MARUM scientist Dr. Ursula Röhl – report about the IODP Wilkes Land Expedition which found evidence in sediment cores that this part of Antarctica experienced an intense phase of warming 52 million years ago. more...

Deep Biosphere

MARUM scientists take part in an expedition off Japan. Onboard the drilling vessel CHIKYU and in cooperation with international colleagues they investigate interdependencies of geological and biological processes deep below the sea floor. more...

Holidays in a Quarry

Last weekend a group of school kids was looking for fossils in a quarry close to the town of Hannover. They were invited by colleagues of the Geosciences Collection and the Kreissportbund Bremen. The objects found will be soon be prepared in Bremen. more...

Pacific Climate Snapshot

In study which was now published in Nature Communications MARUM researcher Dr. Thomas Felis and a group of international marine scientists demonstrate that, unlike today, the tropical South Pacific was affected by El Niño events towards the end of the last ice age. more...

Professorship Micropalaeontology

Recently Prof. Michal Kucera joined the MARUM team. By applying novel approaches such as molecular genetics, the micropalaeonlogist studies biological and ecological processes in foraminifera and their interaction with global change. more...

Frontiers of Science

MARUM scientist Enno Schefuß was one of 21 invited lecturers at the 18th German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium of the National Academy of Science and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The lectures can be seen as videos in the internet. more...

Farewell Workshop

At the end of his term as Rector of the University of Bremen Prof. Wilfried Müller organized a workshop which takes place in the MARUM building. Eminent representatives and scientists from German scientific institutions participate. more...

Science Barge in Bremen

From July 23 – 25 the Science Barge will visit Bremen. It presents the interactive exhibition “Future Earth”, which deals with research in the context of a sustainable development. The barge will berth at the Tiefer. Entrance free from 10 am to 7 pm. more...

Ocean Iron Fertilization

MARUM colleague Dr. Ilka Peeken is co-author of a paper which was now published in Nature. The study deals with the controversially discussed issue of ocean iron fertilization in Antarctic waters. more...

100,000 Visitors!

The Deep Sea Exhibition in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim opened on March 23rd. Now visitor number 100,000 was welcomed. In the exhibition MARUM presents amongst others deep sea technologies. more...

Tracing the Tohoku Earthquake

Earlier this year MARUM scientists investigated the seabed off Japan. Two new videos are now available on YouTube and offer impressions of this cruise on board of RV SONNE . The videos were produced by Eike Besuden, a film maker from Bremen. more...

New Professorship Palaeoceanography

On July 1st Prof. Heiko Pälike joined the MARUM team. Until then he had been working at the University of Southampton. At Bremen University the geoscientist takes over a professorship for palaeoceanography. more...

RV SONNE meets CHIKYU

Last week, MARUM scientists onboard the research vessel SONNE drilled side-by-side with the Japanese drilling vessel CHIKYU into active mud volcanoes in the Kumano Basin off the coast of Japan. more...

Wirtschaftsempfang 2012

On June, 27th, the Bremen Chamber of Commerce presented this year’s economy welcome at the MARUM. About 450 guests listened to the lecture held by Dr. Peter Tschentscher, finance minister in Hamburg, and participated in the following get-together. more...

INTERCOAST Research Training Group

Firoz Badesab, PhD student at the International Research Training Group INTERCOAST, published his first paper. It deals with magnetite-enriched zones in and offshore Tauranga Harbour and the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. more...

Cooperation with National Geographic

The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) cooperates with National Geographic Germany. MARUM as part of KDM will contribute scientific video clips for kids. more...

Drill hole observatory MeBo-Plug

From June 9th until July 18th MARUM scientists around Prof. Achim Kopf run an expedition off the Japanese coast. In the Kumano Basin they installed the first MeBo long-term observatory in a drill hole of the sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo. more...

Again success in the Excellence Initiative

The Cluster of Excellence „The Ocean in the Earth System – MARUM“ will be funded in the third phase of the Excellence Initiative for another term of five years. The funding until 2017 amounts all in all 39 million Euro. more...

Mediterranean Outflow

From June 9 to 17th 47 scientists from 13 countries met in the IODP Bremen Core Repository. They jointly sampled 5.5 kilometres of core which were drilled during the „Mediterranean Outflow“ expedition in the Gulf of Cádiz and off West Iberia. more...

2012 Crustal Processes Meeting

A total of 60 participants from five countries met from June 7th until 9th at the MARUM for this year’s DEBI RCN Meeting. Lectures and training workshops including IODP cores focused on ocean crust processes and consequences for subseafloor life. more...

INTERCOAST Workshop

From June 16th until 21th 15 scientists from New Zealand are visiting the MARUM. Together with their colleagues from Bremen they participate at the 5. workshop of the international research training group INTERCOAST. more...

MeBo in the South China Sea

From May 17th to June 7th a team of MARUM scientists was on expedition in the South China Sea. With samples from the sea floor drilled with the sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo they want to reconstruct natural changes of the East Asian summer monsoon. more...

Prof. Dieter Meischner passed away

Prof. Dieter Meischner passed away at the age of 78 years. Three decades ago the geoscientist was a mentor who gave valuable advice in the process of establishing the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen. more...

MeBo drilling record set!

During the current cruise on board RV SONNE the expedition team led by Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi set a new record. With the sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo the team reached a drilling depth of 80.85 metres – more than ever before. more...

Environmental Week in Berlin

On June 5th and 6th Federal President Joachim Gauck is patron of the “Environmental Week” which takes places in the park of his official residence Bellvue Castle in Berlin. MARUM UniSchoollab participates and presents its educational work on climate change. more...

MARUM beim Wissenschaftssommer

Spannendes aus der Tiefsee gibt es am MARUM-Stand auf dem Wissenschaftssommer zu entdecken. Das von der Initiative Wissenschaft im Dialog organisierte Forschungsfestival findet vom 2. - 6. Juni 2012 in der diesjährigen Stadt der Wissenschaft in Lübeck statt. more...

The Science Barge

On the 3oth of May the exhibition barge „Wissenschaft“ started the 2012 tour. The exhibition covers our “Future Earth” and comprises an exhibit provided by MARUM on sea level rise and coastal protection. From July 23 to 25 the barge will visit Bremen. more...

World Expo Korea

On May 12 the World Expo “The Living Ocean and Coast” was opened in South Korea. MARUM contributes HD video material to support the highlight of the German pavilion: a virtual dive into the deep sea. more...

Tracing the Tohoku Earthquake

During a media conference that took place at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna on April 25 Prof. Gerold Wefer and collegues reported about a recent expedition with the German research vessel SONNE off Japan. more...

COOPEUS - A New EU Project

The new EU project COOPEUS aims at fostering and perpetuating the cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research. The project, which has a budget of 2 million Euros will start this summer and will be coordinated at MARUM. more...

Ship’s log MSM 20-4

Until April 7 MARUM scientists were on expedition in the Gulf of Mexico exploring cold-water corals. In an expedition log Thomas Willke, correspondent of the magazine bild der wissenschaft, reported on the work and life on board the research vessel MERIAN. more...

Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise

New findings regarding a dramatic sea-level rise at the onset of the last deglaciation have recently been published in Nature by members of the IODP Tahiti Sea Level Expedition. The onshore science party of the expedition took place at MARUM in 2006. more...

The Deep Sea in Rosenheim

MARUM is partner of the deep-sea exhibition “Tiefsee”, which now can be seen in the Lokschuppen Rosenheim. Until November 4 visitors can see a real Black Smoker or operate the diving robot MARUM-QUEST in a simulation. more...

MeBo-Einsatz im Chinesischen Meer

Noch bis zum 7. Juni sind MARUM-Wissenschaftler um Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi auf Expedition im Südchinesischen Meer. Mit dem Meeresboden-Bohrgerät MARUM-MeBo werden Proben vom Meeresboden erbohrt, die den Forschern als Klimaarchiv dienen. more...

Mysterious Deep Sea

In its science magazine X:enius the German-French TV station Arte recently presented deep sea research „made in Bremen“. The reports focused on the deep sea drill rig MARUM-MeBO and, once again, the diving vehicle MARUM-QUEST. more...

SONNE Expedition Completed!

The expedition of the German research vessel SONNE in the area of the Tohoku earthquake came to an end last Saturday. A nationwide report covering the four weeks of research in the public German TV news Tagesthemen aired last Friday. more...

BIOMARIS Research Award

The Bremen based cosmetics manufacturing company BIOMARIS together with MARUM awards a research prize for the promotion of marine research in the State of Bremen. April 15th 2012 is the closing date for applications. more...

Tracing the giant quake

About a year ago, on March 11 2011, the big Tohuku quake occurred off the Japanese coast, causing a devastating tsunami. In the area around the epicenter German and Japanese scientists are about to embark on an expedition with the research vessel SONNE. more...

Prof. Michael Ivanov passed away

On Wednesday, February 15th, our colleague Prof. Michael Ivanov, who held a professorship for petroleum geology, passed away after a severe illness. An obituary by Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann can be found here: more...

Newspaper goes to school

Last November class 4b of Parsevalstraße Elementary School visited MARUM to report for ZiGsch (Newspaper Goes to School). Their article on travel to the deep sea was published in today’s issue of the daily newspaper Weser Kurier. more...

Mentoring Programme

Bremen University recently started a new mentoring programme for female scientists. Young researchers will cooperate with senior scientists to promote their career. MARUM is one of the institutional partners of the programme. more...

Dusty Sahara

In its serial X:enius ARTE TV aired a programme on dust export from the Sahara desert on February 9. The report features MARUM scientist Dr. Inka Meyer and can also be watched on the ARTE website. more...

DKK Statement

On February 6th the German Climate Consortium (Deutsches Klima-Konsortium - DKK) made a statement on the book "Die kalte Sonne: Warum die Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindet" by F. Vahrenholt and S. Lüning. more...

Icy Records

In cooperation with Gothenburg University MARUM deployed an underwater observatory in a Swedish fjord. The instrument has been measuring the oxygen content of the fjord water – even under the current icy conditions. more...

Briese Research Award

MARUM researcher Dr. Tobias Goldhammer receives the Briese Research Award 2011 for his excellent PhD thesis. The award worth Euro 5,000 is donated by the shipping company Briese. Briese manages the medium sized German research vessels. more...

Our Blue Future

The German Marine Research Consortium KDM organized a special meeting of science ministers from Northern German and an exhibition on marine research which takes place in the European Parliament. Keynote speaker is best-selling author Frank Schätzing. more...

MARUM Research Award

Sebastian Hammerschmidt, Bernhard David A. Naafs and James Collins received the „MARUM Research Award for Marine Geosciences 2011“ for their outstanding research studies. The prize is endowed with a total of 3.000 euro.

Open Ship JOIDES Resolution

The US-American drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution finished expedition 339 in Lisbon. 600 politicians, scientists, and students visited the vessel during the port call. MARUM organized a very well attended media conference and a tour of the vessel for journalists. more...

From Genes to Ecosystem

On January 17th, 2012, the EuroMarine General Assembly will take place in Bremen. More than 100 international scientists of the EU multidisciplinary marine network EuroMarine meet for three days. more...

„Floating University“ started

From 6th until 15th of January 12 students from different universities in Germany and Namibia are onboard the research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN. They are taught by three scientists from the MARUM and GEOMAR and report on the expedition in a ship’s log. more...

Bighorn Basin Project

From January 9 to 27 sixteen scientists from four countries meet in the Bremen Core Repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. They analyze 917 metres of core which were drilled in Wyoming last summer in the framework of the Bighorn Basin Project. more...

Köppen Award

MARUM scientist Dr. Ines Heßler received the Köppen Award for Climate and Earth System Research 2012 for her excellent doctoral thesis on climate variations during the last glacial. The award is donated by the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP Hamburg. more...

MARUM on YouTube

Recently YouTube redesigned its website. Now MARUM TV appears in a new look. 86 short documentaries are available which cover MARUM`s three research fields, deep-sea technologies and fascinating underwater videos. Up to now more than 100,000 single views were registered. more...

German-French Alliance

Representatives of AWI, MARUM, CNRS, and Ifremer recently founded a European Research Group whose goal is to unify and develop the competence of engineers, technicians, and scientists of these marine institutes in the field of underwater technologies. more...

Newsflash Archive

Atlantic Remote Control

A team of MARUM scientists studied changes in the Southern African water cycle during the last 17 000 years. The results of their study are published in the December 22nd issue of the magazine Nature. more...

GLOMAR Best Paper Award 2011

This year’s awardee of the „Best Paper Award“ from the Graduate School GLOMAR is Anna-Maria Hubert. The prize endowed with 1000 Euro was given to her in the course of this year’s GLOMAR graduation at MARUM on December 13th. more...

Tara Oceans Expedition

The December issue of the GEO magazine relates the European expedition onboard the French research sailing vessel Tara off Galapagos Islands in spring 2011. Chief scientist Stéphane Pesant from the MARUM and his team investigated the plankton diversity. more...

A New Seafloor Drill Rig

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research now approved an application to build a new seafloor drill rig which will be able to retrieve up to 200 metre long cores. The federal grant adds up to about 7.4 million Euros. more...

Traces of Life

Recently nano, the science magazine of the public TV station 3sat, reported about MARUM`s deep sea reserach at the interface of geology and biology. The report presented biomarker research activities currently performed in the working group of Prof. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs. more...

MARUM Bildkalender 2012

Faszinierende Unterwasseraufnahmen, die mit den ROVs MARUM-CHEROKEE und MARUM-QUEST gemacht wurden, finden Sie im MARUM Bildkalender 2012. Den Kalender gibt's für einen Druckkosten-Beitrag von 2,50 Euro im MARUM-Shop. more...

40th Anniversary

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Bremen University an exhibition was opened in a mutual savings bank in Bremen on November 14. MARUM provides exhibits covering subjects like methane hydrates and sea floor mapping. more...

Mass Extinction Chronology

In the current edition of Science magazine an international team of scientists, among them MARUM geochemist Dr. Xiao-lei Liu, describes the course of the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago with unprecedented accuracy. more...

Sahara Dust

These days a team of the Arte science magazine X:enius worked at MARUM. Together with Dr. Inka Meyer the TV team shoot a piece on dust from the Sahara which will be aired early next year. more...

Ice Age Impressions

Until December 8 the Department of Geosciences presents soil profiles from the last ice age. The exhibits were prepared during a co-operation between Bremen geoscientists and a secondary school class in the nearby town of Ritterhude. more...

Atlantic Remote Control

GLOMAR Best Paper Award 2011

Tara Oceans Expedition

A New Seafloor Drill Rig

Traces of Life

MARUM Bildkalender 2012

40th Anniversary

Mass Extinction Chronology

Sahara Dust

These days a team of the Arte science magazine X:enius worked at MARUM. Together with Dr. Inka Meyer the TV team shoot a piece on dust from the Sahara which will be aired early next year. more...